Reginald Pawle died at his home in Reigate on 10th August, 1958, at the age of 88.
Mr. Pawle was educated at Marlborough College and received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines from 1887 to 1891, gaining the A.R.S.M. in mining. He then worked as an assistant at Halkyn mines, North Wales, for two years and left in 1893 for Sarawak to take charge of Quicksilver mines at Tegora for Borneo Co., Ltd. Five years later he was appointed manager of that company’s gold mine and cyanide works at Bau, Upper Sarawak, and in 1905 became superintending engineer of the Borneo Co.’s mines in Sarawak and the Federated Malay States.
From 1909 to 1911 Mr. Pawle was general superintendent to Pahang Consolidated Co., Ltd., but returned to the United Kingdom to set up a consulting partnership in London under the style of Pawle and Brelick, consulting engineers. On the death of his partner, Mr. Henry Brelick, in 1936 Mr. Pawle retired from practice. He had been a member of the Tin and Tungsten Advisory Technical Committee of the Imperial Institute and a member of council of both the Malayan Chamber of Mines and the Tin Producers’ Association from their inception. He had also held a number of directorships, being at one time chairman of Consolidated Tin Mines of Burma, Ltd., Ipoh Tin Dredging, Ltd., Mineral Products, Ltd., and Sungei Kinta Tin Dredging, Ltd.
Mr. Pawle was one of the Institution’s oldest members, having joined in 1897 as an Associate Member, transferring to Membership in 1901, and had served as Member of Council of the Institution from 1917 to 1924. He contributed a paper to the Transactions (vol. 36, 1926-27) entitled ‘The Empire’s tin resources’.
Vol. 68, Trans I.M.M., 1958-9, p.284
See: Sixty Years of Tin Mining: A History of the Pahang Consolidated Company, 1906-1966 (Pahang Consolidated Company Limited, 1966, p.26.)
